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Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968). The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.

Book XVI: Socialism

The most eloquent passages from the pens of those who foresee the definite solution of the problems of economic inequality. Every aspect of the Socialist movement is represented.
Is It Nothing to You? (From “Merrie England”)—Robert Blatchford
The Sign of the Son of Man—Vida D. Scudder
Poverty Makes All Unhappy—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
The One Duty (From “The Measure of the Hours”)—Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)
Land Titles—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
The Rights of Labor—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65)
A Marching Song—Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)
The Duties of Man—Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–72)
From Revolution to Revolution—George D. Herron
The March of the Workers—William Morris (1834–96)
The Working Day (From “Capital”)—Karl Marx (1818–83)
The Organization of Labor—Louis Blanc (1811–82)
The Wastes of Capitalism (From “The Laws of Social Evolution”)—Theodor Hertzka
G. Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
From Revolution to Revolution—George D. Herron
The Internationale—Eugene Pottier
The Syndicalist (From “The Red Wave”)—Joseph-Henry Rosny, the Elder
The Communist Manifesto—Karl Marx and Frederick Engles (1818–83)
The Workingman’s Program—Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–64)
Jurgis Hears a Socialist Speech (From “The Jungle”)—Upton Sinclair (1878–1968)
The Marseillaise—Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Trial for High Treason (From “My Life”)—August Bebel (1840–1913)
Jimmie Higgins—Ben Hanford
From the Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)
Progressivism and After—William English Walling
Otto von Bismarck (1815–98)
The Revolution in the Mind and Practice of the Human Race (From the Preface)—Robert Owen (1771–1858)
Running a Socialist Paper (From “Comrade Yetta”)—Albert Edwards
Renovating the State—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)
The New State (From the “Panama-Pacific Ode”)—George Sterling
The Coming Dawn (From “Woman”)—August Bebel (1840–1913)
Labor Irresistible (From “Violence and the Labor Movement”)—Robert Hunter
From the Magnificat—Mary, Mother of Jesus
To Labor (From “In This Our World”)—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists—Robert Tressall
Wealth Against Commonwealth—Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847–1903)
Mutual Aid as a Factor in Evolution—Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921)
Co-operation and Nationality—“A.E.” (George W. Russell) (1867–1935)
New World for Old—H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
Socialism and Motherhood—John Spargo (1876–1966)
Progress in Medicine—James P. Warbasse
The Socialist Faith—George D. Herron